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MACKENZIE-HUGHES. .LOGOMOTIVE LAMP BRACKET.

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' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDVARD W'ILLIAM MACKENZIE-HUGHES, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO THEFOX SOLID PRESSED STEEL COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

LOCOMOTIVE LAMP-BRACKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 431,603, dated July 8,1890.

Application filed May 23, 1889. Serial No. 311,879- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD WILLIAM MACKENZIE-HUGHES,ofOhicago,Cookcounty, Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement inLocomotive Lamp-Brackets, of which the following is a full, true andexact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings. r

This invention. relates to .an improvement in lamp-brackets forlocomotives, by which their weight can be greatly reduced and a cheapand simple structure substituted for the heavy casting now employed. Inmaking a lamp-bracket for locomotives it is essential that there shallbe a bracket upon which the lamp shall rest and an attachment to saidbracket by which it may be attached to the front end of the boiler.Sometimes the bracket rests entirely over the boiler and sometimes itextends beyond the front end thereof. By my improvement I make thelamp-bracket of pressed steel and at the same time in the operation ofmaking the bracket I press from its body and integral therewith thesupports by which it is to be attached to the boiler front.

In my drawings, Figure 1 represents an elevation, Fig. 2 a plan View,and Fig. 3 a vertical section, of my bracket when arranged to be placedover the front end of the boiler; Fig. 4, a vertical section, and Fig; 5a plan, of my projecting lamp-bracket.

The bracket proper is shown at A, and it consists of a flat surfacehaving legs or supports B, by which the bracket is bolted to the boilerC. In the manufacture of this bracket ablank of the proper shape isprovided, which is then by suitable mechanism now well known punched andpressed out, so that the parts removed from the openings D D, Fig. 2,serve to form the Web-like supports B B, Fig. 3. The outer edge is bypreference turned down to form the flange, as shown at E E, and a flangemay likewise be arranged around the opening, as shown at F.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

As a new article of manufacture, a pressedsteel 1am p-bracket forlocomotives, consisting of a supporting-plate having an opening in itscentral portion and having legs or supports upon its under side alongthe edges of the opening integral with the body of the plate, each legconsisting of a portion of the plate removed from said opening,substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

' EDWARD WILLIAM MACKENZIE-HUGHES.

Witnesses:

WM. Voss, W. S. HARTWELL.

